1:00

Welcome

Anne Guiney, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Design

Introduction

Michael Sorkin, Board Chair, Institute for Urban Design

1:15

Session 1: Haiti, January 11, 2010

An introduction to the political and social context in Haiti from the end of the Duvalier regime in 1986 until the earthquake hit.

Speaker:  Garry Pierre-Pierre, Editor and Founder, The Haitian Times

1:45

Audience Q&A

2:00

Session 2: Haiti, January 13, 2010: The Government’s Plan for Reconstruction

A presentation of the government’s Action Plan for Reconstruction and its genesis; lessons learned in prior disasters, and other initiatives.

Speaker:  Leslie Voltaire, Haiti’s Special Envoy to the United Nations; Member, government Reconstruction Team, Port-au-Prince

Respondents: David Evans, Chief Technical Advisor, UN-HABITAT Sri Lanka, Colombo

Ami Desai, Foreign Policy Advisor to President Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, New York

David Mulet, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.

Moderator:  Steven Lewis, National Organization of Minority Architects, Location, Washington, D.C.

3:00

Audience Q&A

3:15

Break

Coffee and cookies are available in the lobby.

3:30

Session 3: Specific Efforts in Haiti Now

Speakers:  Louis Herns Marcelin, Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development, Port-au-Prince

Chris Williams, UN-HABITAT representative for Washington, D.C.

Patrice Nevil, Director of Infrastructure for Haiti, Partners in Health, Port-au-Prince

James Dart, AIA, DARCH, New York

Deborah Gans, Gans Studio, New York

Respondent:  Leslie Voltaire, Haiti’s Special Envoy to the United Nations; Chief planner, government’s Reconstruction

Moderator:  Toni Griffin, Institute for Urban Design Board Member, Newark & Detroit

4:30

Audience Q&A

4:45

Session 4:  Plenary Panel

Moderator: Michael Sorkin

5:30

Audience Q&A

5:45

Conclusion:  Anne Guiney, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Design

Michael Sorkin, Board Chair, Institute for Urban Design